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LOL - "this doesn't agree with everything I've been told to believe" so therefore it is "garbage". Just sad.

100% agree. And this is why news sources that immediately jumped on the Jussie Smollett fraud need to be questioned. What is causing these news sources to jump on these lies so fast. Is it because of their confirmation bias? I say yes. First of all, you demonstrated that you hadn't even looked at it, so how do you know it's "Crap". It appears that the only real metric that things are "crap" is based on what conflicts with your inherent bias. If it makes you question the "crap" that you've chosen to believe as truth, then it must be shunned. This whole "horrendous sources" thing is just so lame, and so sad. It's just a cowardly excuse to ignore a different point of view. To avoid having to think about anything that you've chose to believe as truth being questioned. And that's just sad.

Is there anything that you guys are actually allowed to read? Or is this just the "go-to" every time someone writes something that you don't want to hear? Immediately check the alt-left rating and then hold your hands over your ears?? So cowardly. So what was in that article that was "borderline questionable" exactly? Are you saying that the attack wasn't staged? That the media wasn't fooled? That they haven't been fooled hundreds of times? Is there anything in that article that you think is incorrect? Because this constant 1984'ing of all items that you disagree with is just really really sad.

I'm not sure why our Justice Minister is also our Attorney General. I am against increased government spending as a rule, but in this case I think that the job should be separated, to avoid these kinds of conflicts of interest.

Liberals defeat motion for inquiry. Of course. https://www.castanet.net/edition/news-story-249764-4-.htm#249764

This is just sad: If there was a "national outrage" over the dubious incident, it was limited to gullible left-wing journalists, celebrities, politicians, and activists. The "narrative" only seemed "cut-and-dry" to people who were looking at the case through lenses clouded by their anti-Trump bias. It seemed made up to those of us who noticed that Smollett's allegations were outlandish, implausible, and riddled with inconsistencies from the get-go. Yet even as his story started falling apart (which happened almost immediately), the national media clung to their precious narrative. There's been much commentary in the past few days about the MSM's lack of critical thinking skills in covering not only the Jussie Smollett "hate crime" fairy tale, but a number of other bogus stories as well. Over the years, the MSM has fallen for hundreds of hate crime hoaxes, reporting on them as if they were confirmed facts, rather than mere allegations. By the time the story is proven to be a hoax, the media has already moved on to the next manufactured outrage. This phenomenon has only increased since the election of President Trump. Yet people still expressed shock and surprise when it became obvious that Smollett had staged his own hate crime. But fake hate crimes aren't the only type of bogus story the MSM routinely falls for. In the past two years the national media has also rushed to embrace the phony Steele dossier, a multitude of fake Deep State leaks on the Trump/Russia probe that turned out to be spectacularly wrong, the outlandish Kavanaugh smears, and the Covington smears. PJ Media's own Roger Simon called the media's propensity for believing the unbelievable "magical thinking." Another possible explanation for the media's gullibility would be confirmation bias, which is defined as "the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one's preexisting beliefs or hypotheses." The overwhelmingly liberal media tend to embrace stories that confirm their own biases and ignore those that don't. https://pjmedia.com/trending/why-does-the-msm-keep-falling-for-obvious-hoaxes/

Nick Sandmann, the "Make America Great Again" hat-toting 16-year-old from Kentucky seen in a series of January videos that showed him smiling among a crowd of his dancing, laughing peers as he was approached by an Indigenous drummer near the Lincoln Memorial, is suing the Washington Post. Sandmann, a student at Covington Catholic High School, is suing the newspaper for $250 million in damages, alleging that it engaged in a "modern-day form of McCarthyism by competing with CNN and NBC, among others, to claim leadership of a mainstream and social media mob of bullies," according to legal documents posted online by lawyers Lin Wood and Todd McMurtry. Said parties "attacked, vilified and threatened" Sandmann, according to the lawsuit. The Post claimed that Sandmann instigated the Jan. 18 encounter when it "conveyed that Nicholas engaged in acts of racism by 'swarming'" Indigenous veteran Nathan Phillips, "'blocking' his exit away from the students and otherwise engaging in racist misconduct," the lawsuit said. "The Post ignored basic journalist standards because it wanted to advance its well-known and easily documented, biased agenda against President Donald J. Trump by impugning individuals perceived to be supporters of the president." https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/maga-hat-wearing-kentucky-teen-sues-washington-post-for-dollar250-million-alleging-mccarthyism/ar-BBTPh7X?ocid=spartanntp Should there be a penalty for publishing fake news? We will see but this could be a landmark case.

Exactly.

You have no idea how much this made me laugh.

Why did it go "sideways"? Because I was saying things that you don't want to hear? Oh no! This is so sad. Such utter cowardice. Unbelievable. Anyway, time will tell who is right. I see a lot of AOC pumping going on right now. It will be interesting if you guys still are doing this in 2020.

I did bring in a clip from Fox News. It's obvious that I'm not posting these for you guys, because you don't even watch them. I honestly don't care if the closed mind brigade here doesn't take what I say seriously. I just want to be stating this stuff for the record. Like I said that Trump would be elected well before he was. Now I am telling you that politicians like Omar and AOC are going to be stabbed in the back like Sanders was in 2016, and that it has to happen if the Democrats have any chance of winning the election. You can continue to be naïve and not listen, that's your choice. But I think it's been a great experiment into what is happening all over. Those that want AOC to succeed are not going to acknowledge her constant failings. And her unelectability. And you still won't, when the Dems lose again. And that's the perfect way to just keep losing.

LOL - "hit pieces" - yes, that's what they are all right. We live in such a 1984 world now. Everything is spun and truth is always the casualty. She's golden all right - solid gold for the Republicans to continue to show that the Democrats are unelectable. She's the gift that keeps on giving for them, as she continues to serve up stupidity at a staggering rate. and while that's happening, the elites in the Democrat party will be stabbing her in the back. If they aren't already. yes, the parallels to Trump are quite stunning. As are the parallels to her base and Trump's base. They both enjoy seeing rudeness and "smack downs" of the media. Here's another Democrat who is "smacking down" the media Trump style, being incredibly rude to CNN, the Democrats best friend... #MAGA!!! It's like looking in a mirror!

Well, this is novel. We’re accustomed to the spectacle of others forced to taste the underside of the tires of the most-exercised vehicle in Ottawa. But how often do we get to watch the bus driver exit the vehicle to toss himself under its wheels? It was during the soft hours of a Family Day afternoon that the principal secretary of the prime minister of Canada publicly committed political seppuku. Time dilates in politics when you’re having a very rough time. And how very long it must seem, if you’re a Liberal, from that first day of denial (Trudeau: “The allegations are false.”) to Mr. Butts’ self-ejection from the most powerful, influential position, outside that of the prime minister, in Canadian politics. How often do we get to watch the bus driver exit the vehicle to toss himself under its wheels? There has been no drama on this scale, not during Adscam, not during the interminable Duffy saga, not even dare I say back to the squalid Gerda Munsinger affair (prostitute, spy, cabinet ministers, bed) to equal Monday’s instalment of the SNC-Jody Wilson-Raybould opera. And it is the scale of the thing that is its salient feature, its extraordinary factor. It’s one thing, say, to lob an irritating or careless backbencher over the battlements, to sate the anger of the mob below. But, to so speak, for Mr. Spock to hurl himself on the rocks to save Captain Kirk is a scenario none could have contemplated. So we arrive at the primary question that emerges from this week’s drama. For Mr. Spock to hurl himself on the rocks to save Captain Kirk is a scenario none could have contemplated Why was so explosive a gesture thought necessary? Why did Gerald Butts resign? To deter a stronger storm? And what tempest could be stronger than one which necessitates the prime minister of the Prime Minister to annihilate his political career? We knew this SNC-J W-R story was ominous and threatening already. But no one (outside possibly Robert Fife and Steven Chase) in the sage chorus of the Ottawa press gallery or the wisest lookers-on even dreamed it could pass from “nothing to see here” to Mr. Butts abandoning his near-Siamese counterpart, as a selfless gesture, needful for Mr. Trudeau to weather a greater storm yet to come. To underscore: no one thought this matter was so threatening that Gerald Butts, Mr. Trudeau’s secret-sharer, mentor, strategist, fixer and friend, would choose to fall on his sword — before there was yet any clear, agreed-upon, set of facts over what is being contested. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau leaves his office with Gerald Butts to attend an emergency cabinet meeting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on April 10, 2018. Justin Tang/CP Resignations follow revelations. It is not in the course of political nature that they precede them. The public still does not know what all this is about. Ms. Jody Wilson-Raybould’s silence (as I write anyway) is still intact. Words she has still yet to speak are the Damoclean Sword over Mr. Trudeau’s stay in office and the fate of his government. But of this we can be certain. Mr. Butts did not resign to make matters worse, to sharpen focus on the drama, to further darken its already bleak overcloud. He must have chosen to do so because there was some element, more explosive, more turbulent, and more ominous for his friend and prime minister yet to come. Yet to come, and which Mr. Butts’ pre-emptive sacrifice offered some hope of either preventing, deflecting or deflating. He must have chosen to do so because there was some element, more explosive … yet to come Either that, or — worse still, he determined there was no point at this point in staying to fight at all. A wild surmise, I admit, but one which must be roiling the sleep of many a Liberal front and backbencher. Mr. Butts’ leave-taking is all the more remarkable, too, because, as so many have noted, it was replete with declarations, unqualified and trenchant, that neither he nor anyone in the PMO “pressured Ms. Wilson-Raybould.” He emphatically denies all fault. And he should — as long as J W-R’s silence extends itself and no factual contradiction emerges — be taken at his word. But why then leave? This is accepting penance for sins uncommitted, unfamiliar both in liturgy and life. Jody Wilson-Raybould participates in a Chinese New Year Parade in Vancouver on Feb. 10, 2019. Darryl Dyck/CP The reason he gives: to save the prime minister from the “distraction” of his presence. There is a mighty quotient of distraction tied up in his resignation itself. What distraction does he think he’s sparing Mr. Trudeau, that could surpass the one he has just created? The scandal itself, however, is a distraction. It consumes so much attention and coverage that it obscures a second dark melody, the counterpoint of the Vice-Admiral Mark Norman affair. J W-R’s resignation submerged that of Scott Brison, which apart from drollery on Twitter following Mr. Trudeau’s facile attempt to use it to “explain” that of Wilson-Raybould, has inspired very little comment. Vice-Admiral Mark Norman returns to a courthouse in Ottawa with his lawyer, Marie Henein, following a break in the proceedings on Jan. 29, 2019. Adrian Wyld/CP The Norman affair crosses many of the same themes as the larger one, rule of law, possible interference from on high, government stonewalling. It, too, has promise of revelations yet to come. Vice-Admiral Norman’s case is under the formidable care of lawyer Marie Henein, who has all the deferential timidity of a lioness protecting its cubs. Water evaporates when she stands in a courtroom. There are possibly many things Mr. Butts’ resignation may accomplish but I cannot see it will remove any of the pressures Mr. Trudeau is under, and, considering that Mr. Butts was his chief and best consigliere, he (Mr. Trudeau) will be less equipped to deal with them. Meantime, there is still a country to govern, an election to face Meantime, there is still a country to govern, an election to face, and a caucus to mollify. There are convoys in Ottawa, Canadians in Chinese jails, quarrels with Saudi Arabia, and — dare we say it — pipelines yet to be built. We forget sometimes that “staff” is a metaphor — taken from husbandry. It was what the shepherd leaned upon and used to ward off the wolves. It was his first and only weapon. Mr. Butts was Mr. Trudeau’s staff, both metaphorically and etymologically. His weapon and shield. Without Mr. Butts, how will the prime minister fare? That, like “to be or not to be,” is the question. https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-is-there-another-storm-coming-that-gerald-butts-was-trying-to-deter?video_autoplay=true

yes. If she can just get past lying about being Native American and totally ripping off everyone, she may be a contender. Good grief. What a total disgrace.

yes. That's what they said about Hugo Chavez. And those people in Venezuela are now eating cats to survive.

amen brother.

Unless you live in the US, I don't know how you can make this claim about "the people". "Socialist beliefs"? Really? Now it's a religion? "Socialist beliefs" have been tried and failed. When you pay those who don't do anything to do nothing, you are doomed to fail. Socialist beliefs are just that - belief in a fairy tale.

Good luck with that. The Democrats are controlled by old white rich men. Warren Buffett and Bill Gates will never let this happen.

What exactly are these GOP people supposed to be so terrified of exactly? AOC is the gift that keeps on giving for the Republicans. It's the Dems that are terrified, because she is pulling the party further and further away from the center. You can tell yourself that this is a good thing, and that her far-fetched multi-trillion dollar plans or "sensible", but that's not going to win you many elections. For the GOP, both AOC and this Omar person have been a godsend.